Word: suburbanitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pinter's Lovers is about Sarah (Mary Moss) and Richard (David Tresemer) who snuff out their imaginary lovelifes with all the thrilling bile of a child smashing his toys--and all the satisfaction. The waste of suburban life has been spilled on stage before but Pinter's prim yet wrenching method invests the slush with a startling grace...
...collect $15,000 in Boston suburban areas to provide food, shelter, and transportation for a group of Boston poor people, who will march 450 miles to Washington beginning...
...third in his high school class while accepting a classmate who ranked 15th and did not fare as well on his College Board exams. The youth chosen, explains Admissions Director David Smith, displays "personal strength and determination." Wesleyan similarly passed up a top student and star athlete from a suburban Boston high school to pick instead a lower-ranking classmate who, predicts Admissions Director Robert Kirkpatrick, "will work like hell to get through...
Permutations. The fact is that beneath this suburban idyl, Updike's couples are caught up in a black mass of community sex. Their Puritan gods have retreated to unawesome, half-deserted churches, where beaten clergymen, sizing up the businessman congregations, croak about an improbable Christ who "offers us present security, four-and-a-half percent compounded every quarter." The Biblical woman accused of adultery would be safe in Tarbox; here no stones are thrown, only envious glances. With no heat left in the Protestant American crucible, the comfortable couples of Tarbox have reached out for another kind of warmth...
...Center will study ways that medical care can best be delivered to the urban, suburban and rural areas of America...